Kotalik gets his shots in

‘”You see things in the playoffs that you don’t see game in, game out in an 82-game schedule,” Ruff said. “You get more. You expect more, and if you don’t get it you’re disappointed. [In the regular season] you don’t see things out of a lot of players, and I think in Al’s case we needed him to be a big, physical force, and he’s stepped up that part of his game.”‘